The Collector’s Room

2008

Installation, found furniture, found objects and mixed media, dimensions variable

“The Collector's Room” was a solo exhibition in the Janco Dada Museum inspired by the life and work of Yuhannah Dawud, a London based Jewish-Iranian collector of Persian manuscripts, who has destroyed his collection by means of knife and scissors. Installations in the Dada Museum were dedicated to the space where Dawud has lived and worked during the years before his death in 1969, and the passion this space had to contain. The work explores the acts of cutting-out and reassembling the book pages on various scales, spreading from the conventional exhibition space onto less expected and hard-to-reach portions of museum walls, changing the space by means of installation - a “conventional” arrangement of furniture and intensified variations of collage.

The exhibition included:

“The Collector's Room” - installation, found furniture, found objects and mixed media, dimensions variable

“From the Nocturnal Butterflies Collection of Y. D. “ - 153 laser-cut paper figures (based on hand cut prototypes), average height 15 cm, pins

“Cut # 4” - C-print on vinyl sticker, manually cut-out on the wall, 4.6 x 3.8 m